YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 25
Today is Thursday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2018. There are 67 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1760: Britain’s King George III succeeds his late grandfather, George II.
1859: Radical abolitionist John Brown goes on trial in Charles Town, Va., for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (Brown was convicted and hanged.)
1910: “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, is first published.
1954: A meeting of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet is carried live on radio and television.
1983: A U.S.-led force invades Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who says the action is needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
1994: Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claims a black carjacker drove off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder).
2001: A day after the House signs on, the Senate sends President Bush the U-S-A Patriot Act, a package of anti-terror measures giving police sweeping new powers to search people’s homes and business records secretly and to eavesdrop on telephone and computer conversations.
2013: Indignant at reports of U.S. electronic espionage overseas, the leaders of France and Germany say they will insist the Obama administration agree by year’s end to limits that could put an end to alleged American eavesdropping on foreign leaders, businesses and innocent civilians.
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: A citizens group opposes plans by the Mill Creek Park board to build an amphitheater on the west end of the James L. Wick Jr. Recreation Area. Among the most vocal opponents is Mary Wick Thompson, 77, daughter of the park board member for whom the area is named.
Youngstown school officials are discussing altering the starting time for games in the final week of the football season after the fatal shooting of a student outside the East-Wilson game at Stambaugh Stadium.
Cleveland’s Eric Metcalf scores on a punt return to give the Cleveland Browns a 28-23 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. With a 5-2 record, the Browns have sole possession of first place in the AFC Central Division.
1978: Niles Mayor Arthur Doutt polls City Council on what the city should do with the former Niles Firebrick property which the city now owns.
The Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley asks Gov. James A. Rhodes to give it $10 million in state industrial development money and provide $30 million in loan guarantees.
Richard S. Gray, vice president of corporate development for Republic Steel Corp., says the proposal to reopen the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. seems to make little economic sense.
1968: Police are pressing a search for the driver of a car believed to have been drag racing on Market Street with a car operated by Lois Carpenter, who crashed and was killed.
Youngstown State University members of Tri Sigma sorority are promoting the sale of mums for the homecoming festivities. They are Jodie Gustafson, Josa Desimone, Roslyn Barkett, Janice Santangelo, Cindy Bunday and Julie Kryzan.
1943: Two bandits escaped with less than a dollar in change when they robbed Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Morley at 2 a.m. in front of the Park and North Avenue Isaly Dairy Store where Morley is an employee.
Staff Sgt. William Minton of Youngstown is killed in action – his first bombing mission over Germany. He was an aerial gunner.